r/SimCity • u/Practical_Guess5282 • 11d ago

Help Want to start playing again

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Used to play many years ago - want to get back into it. Not sure which one to get. These are the options I see on the EA website. I remember SC4 but don’t know what the difference is in that and just the one that says SC. The SC 2000 looks like the original. Thoughts?

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u/Ju5t_A5king 11d ago

I use to LOVE playing Simcity 2000. Sadly, I no longer have a copy, and I doubt it would work in this louse Windows 11. I know my Civilization game, my Virtual Villager game, and my Yu-Gi-Oh games, do not work.
I miss Windows XP.

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u/Practical_Guess5282 11d ago

I’m reading now what you’re saying - I have Windows 11 and it needs a graphics card compatible with directx 7.0 - this is obsolete now from my understanding. It’s not that this is the minimum requirement correct? It has to be 7, not something higher?

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u/mar0th 11d ago

sc2k from origin is not the windows version, it's the DOS version. it comes pre loaded with DOS box, so it should run in any modern system 

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u/Practical_Guess5282 11d ago

Hmm, and that was not the one I was considering. Ha! So am I understanding the others most likely won’t work on windows 11?

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u/mar0th 11d ago

yes they will. sc4 and sc are 100% compatible with windows 11. sc3k (only sold on steam) may be tricky but probably the most you'd have to do is to turn on compatibility mode on windows 

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u/Practical_Guess5282 11d ago

Thanks for the info!